We are dog people. We have 4. Our house is doggie daycamp and we regularly dog sit for people.
When Cousin moved in, she had 2 dogs, Boy Dog and Girl Dog. These dogs had been visiting us and staying with us their whole lives, so we were very comfortable with them and they fit very well into our pack.
Boy Dog got cancer, and spent a year on chemo and other treatments. Mom often took him to these treatments. And often these treatments made him vomit and loose bladder control, so we cleaned that up. Since he was a 70-lb dog, that was a large quantity. This went on for a year. I don't mean he was constantly vomiting and peeing in the house, but it was at least twice a month. Plus we had to wear gloves to give him his cancer meds.
Boy Dog dies. About 2 weeks later, Cousin is in pet finder looking for a new dog. Now, she still has Girl Dog. And she works 80+ a week. We are doing 90% of her pet care. She was literally feeding her dogs about 1 meal a week at this point. Also, in the mornings she didn't work, she'd just open the door and let the dogs run outside, so they'd run up stairs to the deck to scratch on that door and Mom would let them in, feed them, etc.
I mention this to Mom and tell her she needs to talk to Cousin. She (of course) doesn't listen to me.
So one day Cousin shows up with this dog. According to her, she went to the dog's foster family just to visit the dog and they just gave her the dog and said, "You seem nice, here's the dog!" The foster family lived at least 45 minutes away, so I thought that was weird that Cousin was going there to "visit" this dog. Mom is just blown away that Cousin showed up with this dog.
This is a large dog - 70 pounds and some kind of German Sheperd mix. He's good with people but he immediately starts jockeying for the Alpha Dog position. Girl Dog is the alpha. She's not rough with our dogs, which is important since Girl Dog is about 60 lbs and our dogs are smaller (3 are 15 lbs and 1 is 45 lbs). Girl Dog and New Dog get into it New Dog draws some blood on Girl Dog.
Mom mentions this to Cousin. Cousin talks to the rescue and they inform her that Mom needs to watch Cesar Milan and "be the pack leader." Cousin insists that it's "not that bad" and that "New Dog just needs some training." Great. Where in your 80 hour work week are you going to find time to train this dog?
New Dog draws blood on Girl Dog again - badly enough that you could see cartilage (it was her ear) and to this day her ear doesn't look like the other ear. Mom informs Cousin that either Cousin takes New Dog back to its foster family, or Mom will take New Dog to the Humane Society. So Cousin takes New Dog back.
I am starting to think this woman is made up she is that ****ing bad. But then I remember that she reminds me of my SIL who is also smart enough to be a nurse practitioner but makes the dumbest mistakes and decisions you have ever seen a smart person do. Like life smarts=0 and common sense=0 and responsible decision making skills=0. Woman cannot show up on time to save her life. She can't return a phone call. Marries a guy she met after like 2 weeks together. Goes bankrupt.
SMH. Honestly though this does not surprise me. Irresponsible parent=irresponsible pet owner. The two usually go hand in hand.
